If not for portraits on money, would we all easily remember what Washington, Lincoln, et. al. looked like?
I’m sure part or maybe most of the reason the titans of industry ‘s portraits don’t live in most of our memories is because there were much fewer photographs of them taken. I’m sure I have an order of magnitude more photographs of my child on my phone, then existed any photographs of Rockefeller.
Does anyone care though? Have you ever discussed family history with a teenager? That will let you know how it’s going to go. Younger generations don’t care, just like I didn’t care when I was in high school. There are going to be exceptions, but they won’t be household names. Do you think most teenagers know who Steve Jobs or John Belushi is?
Teenagers are the black hole of information. If you’re not a household name to them, you will not move on to the next generation. That’s how people disappear as household names in 2 generations.
If not for portraits on money, would we all easily remember what Washington, Lincoln, et. al. looked like?
I’m sure part or maybe most of the reason the titans of industry ‘s portraits don’t live in most of our memories is because there were much fewer photographs of them taken. I’m sure I have an order of magnitude more photographs of my child on my phone, then existed any photographs of Rockefeller.
Does anyone care though? Have you ever discussed family history with a teenager? That will let you know how it’s going to go. Younger generations don’t care, just like I didn’t care when I was in high school. There are going to be exceptions, but they won’t be household names. Do you think most teenagers know who Steve Jobs or John Belushi is?
Your metric of “does anybody care?” being what teenagers know is really not relevant. Teenagers know jack all about anything.
This is my last comment.
Teenagers are the black hole of information. If you’re not a household name to them, you will not move on to the next generation. That’s how people disappear as household names in 2 generations.
History is written by the teenagers? Hardly.